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The Latin
uss
Book
RbRef
-114C53
(1973)
Ruling - Pencil , pen or crayon replaced the styles over
the course of the 12th C.
Pricks - in the inner as well as outer margins of early MSS
(for ruling after the bifolium was folded) almost
always indicated an origin in an Irish or
English scriptorium ; pricks in both margins also
occur generally in books during the [crossed out]early[end crossed out] late
12th or early 13th C.

p.49
Peer to
Press
The essential things to notice about rulings are the basic
pattern, the number of lines for a script , the color of ink if a
pen was used & the measurements , not not only height or width
but also between the columns & lines

Eliot Indian Bible - 1st ed. 1663
2nd ed. 1685 S. Green, Cambridge
1569 - earliest ed. of the complete Bible in Spanish
Basil : T. Guarinus
Leila Avrin - Scribes , Script & Books (HEHL) Z4 A97 (1991)
Paper - in existance since the beginning of the Western
Han dynasty (221-24) B C E
Silk possibly a writing surface since the 7th C (BCE)
The Arabs used new linen , old linen rags , hemp & raw
flax for their paper
Parchment manufacture is a variation of leather
making. The essential difference is [crossed out]a variation[end crossed out] that in
parchment making the skin is stretched & scraped &
limed instead of being treated - tannings.
from the time of the earliest codices
hair hair -- matched.
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